Automatic markerless facial performance capture software for Windows

Whether you're creating games, or producing animation for TV or film, Maskarad lets you easily create expressive, realistic facial animations from video. In fact, Maskarad automatically converts the details and nuances of an actor’s video to animation data ready to be used in your favorite 3D package to easily animate your own character rig.

Maskarad uses state-of-the-art technology to automatically locates and tracks head motion as well as facial expressions and precise lips movements. No messy or cumbersome face markers setup, no expensive dedicated hardware and no need to outsource any part of your pipeline. Just a simple video file featuring an actor performance is all you need to create lifelike facial animations.

Maskarad not only analyzes video files, it also process the audio track and precisely detects the phonemes timing of the actor speech. Maskarad takes lips animation to the next level by using an intelligent phonetic engine to break down audio track cleanly. It automatically detect phonemes and has impressive language support that can handle almost any language including English, Spanish, French, Japanese, Italian and German.

Maskarad is a standalone Windows applications that can easily be integrated in any production pipeline. Select a video and Maskarad will quickly output facial animation data ready to be used in your favorite 3D applications including 3ds max, maya, softimage and motionbuilder.

Maskarad animation data works on just about any character rigs, from blend morph shapes to bones-based rig as well as complex custom rig, your character will have never feel so life-like that quickly.

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With Maskarad, you get everything you need to perform markerless facial performance capture, this includes:

- Accurate head positioning, able to track fast head movements and head rotation.

- Accurate markerless facial features detection, fully automated without any complicated marker setup.

- Phonetic detection support most languages, including English, French, Spanish, Japanese and many others.

- Input wide range of video formats, including Quicktime, AVI, and MPG formats.

- Outpout numerous motion file formats, including FBX, C3D, BVH and HTR

- Rig independent set-up, full support for any type of facial rigging including bones, blend shapes, morph targets, and complex custom rig.

- Float Licensing, so you can easily share license(s) across your network.

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